Even If You’re Married You Can Die Alone – Elderly Married Couple Found Dead
Sad story linked to below.
One scare tactic people (usually my fellow conservatives) will pull on singles to get them to hurry up and marry is to tell them that if they remain single, they will die alone, or that being married some how makes dying easier.
By the way, side note, here – if the church did its job and acted as spiritual family to everyone, instead of focusing on their blood relations, then elderly single people who are unrelated to them would do just fine.
A Christian man or woman should not have to marry to have “family” look after them – if churches stopped worshipping The Nuclear Family and actually got off their marriage-worshipping asses, they could look after elderly people who live alone!
Anyway, about this view that you should marry or have to so that you won’t die alone: this is a pretty dumb argument, because married people die alone all the time.
My mother died in the wee hours of the morning in a hospital. She was supposed to be there for only about a week before returning home.
My father and I were not with her when she passed – we got a phone call from the nursing staff that she had passed away. My mother was married to my father. Her being married did not prevent her from dying, nor was my father with her when she died.
In this story below, an elderly married couple died. They were ‘kind of’ together when they died, but it did not help them.
The husband in the story had dementia, and the wife could not walk, or not walk well.
The husband accidentally drove off the road, got the car stuck in the mud, left his wife in the car to go get help, walked down the street – he died (not sure if he had a heart attack or what).
His wife died in the car, some X feet away from her husband who was dead on the road side.
She was in the car alone in temperatures over 80 degrees. (Remember, she could not walk, or found it difficult, and her son or the cops or whomever, found her wheelchair back at her house, it was not in the car with her.)
Okay: so you can be married and still end up dying. You can end up dying alone.
I’m not sure if your husband dying a few feet of where you are (as in this story) would be any more comforting than your husband not being there at all.
So to all the singleness-shamers out there, stop telling us singles that we’ll die all alone, because you know what, married people? You may die all alone, too.
Not everyone dies in a warm, cozy bed surrounded with the smiling faces of loved ones before they kick off.
(Link): He was his wife’s caretaker for decades but got dementia. Their deaths were ‘horrific’
BY SAMANTHA SCHMIDT
Aug 2017
…Getting around became even more difficult for the Tarnowskis – Mary, 78, and Ron, 81. The couple hardly ever left the home which their son, Karl Tarnowski, built adjacent to his own so he could keep an eye on them.
…On Saturday afternoon, eight days after the couple went missing, the family received their answer, and a tragic end to their strenuous search.
A U.S. Border Patrol helicopter found the couple’s Chevy Tahoe on an overgrown, abandoned driveway in a swampy area off the road just two miles away from the family’s hunting property.
They were near Brookston, a town about 30 miles from their Duluth home.
Mary’s Tarnowski’s body was discovered inside the Tahoe, and her husband’s body was found outside of the vehicle, about 50 feet from the road.
Authorities believe Ron Tarnowski may have driven onto the trail accidentally before getting his car stuck in the mud, said Lt. Mike Ceynowa, public information officer for the Duluth Police Department. He said police think Tarnowski left the vehicle in order to seek help.
Autopsy results are still pending, but Karl Tarnowski said there are signs that his mother died of a combination of dehydration and heat while sitting in the car on a day with temperatures in the upper 80s. There is also evidence that Ron Tarnowski had fallen down while trudging through the mud, his son said.
Both are believed to have died on July 29, the day they first went missing, the son said. No foul play is expected, according to authorities.
…“It’s a horrific case,” Ceynowa said. “Nobody wants to lose their parents this way.”
But in the parents’ final moments, Ceynowa said, “their dad was doing what he’s done for years, trying to help his wife and take care of her.”
Indeed, caring for his wife became a taxing responsibility for Ron Tarnowski. And in recent years, his mental deterioration became a challenge for his wife, their son said.
Related:
(Link): Coronavirus: Even Married People With Children Die All Alone
(Link): Couple Die of Covid, Leaving Behind Newborn and Five Children
(Link): Husband Dies of Covid-19 Only 48 Hours After Wife Gives Birth to Premature Baby
(Link): Japan’s Prisons Are a Haven for Elderly Women (Who Are Very Lonely)
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